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Browser Based RSS reader

In case you didn't know Google Reader is going kaput, so I'll need a new reader.
Do you have any recommendation? I just need something with similar capabilities to google reader, mostly the starred option.

Anyhow, I'm also interested in this. And preferably there should be also a browser-plugin for the RSS-reader for Chrome. Apparently Feedly has that, but it seems too "magazine"-like for me since I just want a list of headlines and their sources. The Old Reader touts itself as being similar to Google Reader of old, but I haven't been able to find a plugin for that for Chrome.

The Old Reader touts itself as being similar to Google Reader of old, but I haven't been able to find a plugin for that for Chrome.

That seems precisely what I've been looking for. Unfortunately it seems overload with traffic as it's working slow and it has the import function disabled. Might check it out again in a few weeks when things have settled down.

Newsblur: OK functionality, but only 12 feeds in a free account.
Feedly: Looks fine, works fine after some tweaking (I like my feeds as a plain list, no image-centered magazine rendering ...)
The Old Reader: Exact clone, but swamped with traffic atm.

I'm sticking with Feedly for now, because they promise to come up with a decent web-based client (no extension juggling), and they promise to replicate the greader backend. But keeping my eye on alternatives, nevertheless.

After Google promptly disabled my account with several GB of important mail, I severed my ties with them. I still don't know why, but I suspect I refused to enter the Google+ bullcrap, and didn't use my real name.
Anyway, since I don't even have a smartphone, I only read things on my own laptop, I use Bamboo extension for Firefox. it's really simple, you can export your data easily and it's really fast. The best feature is nested groups. I tried several readers without this funcionality, but it was a while ago.

Story of my life. I said precisely that, then went about complaining about that on the forums. There I found someone who had already been affected and recommended me a backup solution. It was too late, I didn't have access to the account anymore.
I have never ever talked directly to a Google employee, but I tried very hard. Sent several mails to the costumer support. Several months and automated responses later, I just gave up. After all, I'm not their client, the advertisers are.
Since than I have been using Thunderbird with backups to SpiderOak. Can't be too careful. I registered another account, but it's mostly throwaway/spam.

I'm currently trying both Netvibes and Feedly. After a day of use I think Netvibes is a better option if you don't need to keep your RSS subscriptions synced across computers, smartphones and tablets, but if you do then Feedly is the way to go (Hate its interface, though). Once the dust settles down somewhat I'll look into The Old Reader as well...

After Google promptly disabled my account with several GB of important mail, I severed my ties with them. I still don't know why, but I suspect I refused to enter the Google+ bullcrap, and didn't use my real name.
Anyway, since I don't even have a smartphone, I only read things on my own laptop, I use Bamboo extension for Firefox. it's really simple, you can export your data easily and it's really fast. The best feature is nested groups. I tried several readers without this funcionality, but it was a while ago.

I'm trying Bamboo, I like it but there is one thing that bothers me. Is there a way to make it mark the items as read as I scroll them?

I'm trying Bamboo, I like it but there is one thing that bothers me. Is there a way to make it mark the items as read as I scroll them?

Not that I'm aware of. I just read them all by order and then mark everything as read. The author was quite active on the addons page, last time I checked, and with the Reader kerfuffle it must be flooding.